CONTENTS. PART FIRST. ELOCUTION.

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SECTION I.—ARTICULATION

ELEMENTARY SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS
SUBSTITUTES FOR THE VOWEL ELEMENTS
SUBSTITUTES FOR THE CONSONANT ELEMENTS
ERRORS IN ARTICULATION
COMBINATIONS OF CONSONANTS
EXAMPLES TO ILLUSTRATE INDISTINCT ARTICULATION
MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES

SECTION II—ACCENT AND EMPHASIS

EXAMPLES OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ACCENT
EXAMPLES OF INTENSIVE EMPHASIS
EXAMPLES OF ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS
EXAMPLES OF ANTITHETIC EMPHASIS

SECTION III.—INFLECTIONS

MONOTONE
RISING AND FALLING INFLECTIONS
RULES FOR THE USE OF INFLECTIONS
THE CIRCUMFLEX

SECTION IV.—MODULATION

PITCH OF VOICE
QUANTITY
RULES FOR QUANTITY
QUALITY
RULES FOR QUALITY

NOTATION IN MODULATION

EXAMPLES FOR EXERCISE IN MODULATION
SECTION V.—THE RHETORICAL PAUSE

PART SECOND.

1. TRUE HEROISM, Adapted. Osborne

2. YOU AND I, Charles Mackay

3. LIFE'S WORK

4. THE YOUNG CAPTIVES

5. MY MOTHER'S LAST KISS, Mrs. E. Oakes Smith

6. THE DEAD CHILD'S FORD, Mrs. E. Oakes Smith

7. LAME AND LAZY—A Fable

8. FAITHFULNESS IN LITTLE THINGS, Adapted, Eliza A. Chase

9. THE AMERICAN BOY

10. THE SAILOR BOY'S SONG

11. CHASE OF THE PET FAWN, Adapted. Miss Cooper

12. KINDNESS

13. CARELESS WORDS

14. WEBSTER AND THE WOODCHUCK, Adapted. Boston Traveler

15. DO IT YOURSELF

16. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

17. THE ADOPTED CHILD, Mrs. Hemans

18. THE OLD EAGLE TREE, Rev. John Todd

19. THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE, Elihu Burritt

20. NIGHT'S LESSONS, L.H. Sigourney

21. NATURE'S TEACHINGS, Chambers' Journal

22. SOWING AND HARVESTING, Anon.

23. A THRILLING INCIDENT, Adapted. Anon.

24. THE TRUTHFUL KING

25. WHEN SHALL I ANSWER, NO, J.N. McElligott

26. TO MASTER ROBERT AND JOHN, Davis

27. WHANG, THE MILLER, Goldsmith

28. CHIMNEY-SWALLOWS, Henry Ward Beecher

29. THE DOUBTING HEART, Adelaide Procter

30. THE COMING OF WINTER, T.B. Read

31. CHILD TIRED OF PLAY, N.P. Willis

32. THE RESCUE, By a Sea Captain

33. ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SCOTCH WOMAN

34. ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER, Bernard Barton

35. WEALTH AND FASHION

36. MY FIRST JACK-KNIFE

37. THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS, Nathaniel Hawthorne

38. HIAWATHA'S HUNTING, Longfellow

39. DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A PANTHER, Bk. of Adventures

40. THE POWER OF HABIT, John B. Gough

41. THE DRUNKARD'S DAUGHTER

42. THE TWO YOUNG TRAVELERS, Adapted. Merry's Museum

43. HIGHER!

44. LABOR, Caroline F. Orne

45. THE AMBITIOUS APPRENTICE

46. SO WAS FRANKLIN, Anon.

47. NOW AND THEN, Jane Taylor

48. AN INGENIOUS STRATAGEM, Days of Washington

49. FRANCES SLOCUM, THE YOUNG CAPTIVE, B.J. Lossing

50. THE RAIN-DROPS, Delia Louise Colton

51. SMALL THINGS, F. Bennoch

52. MURDERER'S CREEK, James K. Paulding

53. NAPOLEON'S ARMY CROSSING THE ALPS, Adapted. Anon.

54. WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY, Eliza Cook

55. "I CAN"

56. NOW, TO-DAY, Adelaide A. Procter

57. CAPTURE OF MAJOR ANDRE

58. BENEDICT ARNOLD

59. BEHIND TIME, Freeman Hunt

60. HOW HAPPY I'LL BE

61. THE SWORD OF BUNKER HILL, William R. Wallace

62. BIBLE LEGEND OF THE WISSAHIKON, Lippard

63. ADVICE TO THE YOUNG, E.H. Chapin

64. THE INTREPID YOUTH

65. THE FOUR MISFORTUNES, John G. Saxe

66. MRS. CREDULOUS AND THE FORTUNE-TELLER

67. FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITYAn Allegory

68. NOT TO MYSELF ALONE, S.W. Partridge

69. THE WORLD WOULD BE THE BETTER FOR IT, W.H. Cobb

70. SELECT PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, Bible

71. WINTER BEAUTY, Henry Ward Beecher

72. FROSTED TREES

73. THE MOUNTAINS OF LIFE, James G. Clark

74. IMAGINARY EVILS, Chas. Swain

75. SIR WALTER AND THE LION, A. Walchner

76. CHOICE EXTRACTS

I. WHAT REALLY BENEFITS US.
II. GOD'S LOVE.
III. LIFE-WORK.
IV. HUMILITY.
V. BENEFITS OF ADVERSITY.
VI. OUR MOUNTAIN HOMES.
VII. MAKE A BEGINNING.
VIII. INFLUENCE.
IX. PLEASURE IN ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE.
X. WHAT IS FAME?
XI. CULTIVATED INTELLECT.
XII. GOD'S WORKS ATTEST HIS GREATNESS.

77. CAPTURE OF THE WHALE

78. LEAVES FROM AN AERONAUT, Willis Gaylord Clark

79. THE DAPPLE MARE, John G. Saxe

80. A LEAP FOR LIFE, George P. Morris

81. THE INDIAN BRIDE'S REVENGE, Adapted. L.M. Stowell

82. A MOTHER'S LOVE, Albert Barnes

83. THE LIFE-BOOK, Home Journal

84. ODE ON SOLITUDE, Pope

85. GETTING THE RIGHT START, J.G. Holland

86. THE PRESUMPTION OF YOUTH, Rollin

87. SONG OF THE AMERICAN EAGLE

89. LAST CRUISE OF THE MONITOR, Adapted. Grenville M. Weeks

90. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF WOMEN, Gail Hamilton

91. SCENE FROM WILLIAM TELL, J. Sheridan Knowles

92. THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR MAN, Khemnitzer

93. GRANDEUR OF THE OCEAN, Walter Colton

94. A BURIAL AT SEA, Walter Colton

95. THE TREASURES OF THE DEEP, Mrs. Hemans

96. THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, Thomas Hood

97. A REQUIEM

98. VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON, A.C. Ritchie

99. LA FAYETTE, Charles Sprague

100. THE MYSTIC WEAVER, Rev. Dr. Harbaugh

101. WORK AWAY, Harpers' Magazine

102. QUEEN ISABELLA'S RESOLVE, Vinet

103. DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD, Lamartine

104. THE RETURN OF COLUMBUS, Vinet

105. TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, Grenville Mellen

106. PRESS ON, Park Benjamin

107. THE THREE FORMS OF NATURE, From the French of Michelet

108. THE WHALE AND THE WHALER, From the French of Michelet

109. RIENZI'S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS, Miss Mitford

110. SONG OF THE FORGE

111. CHOICE EXTRACTS

I. SWIFTNESS OF TIME.
II. THE SHIP OF STATE.
III. THE TRUE HERO.
IV. HEART ESSENTIAL TO GENIUS.
V. EDUCATION.
VI. VANITY OF WEALTH.
VII. CONSOLATION OF THE GOSPEL.
VIII. THE LIGHT OF HOPE.
IX. PAMPERING THE BODY AND STARVING THE SOUL.

112. WE ALL DO FADE AS A LEAF, Gail Hamilton

113. TEACHINGS OF NATURE, Pollok

114. PASSING UNDER THE ROD, Mary S.B. Dana

115. THE PETULANT MAN, Osborne

116. THE BRAHMIN AND THE ROGUES, Versified by J.N. McElligott

117. LIVING WITHIN OUR MEANS, S.W. Partridge

118. GRANDEUR OF THE UNIVERSE, O.M. Mitchel

119. "WHOM HAVE I IN HEAVEN BUT THEE?", Pamelia S. Vining

120. THE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON, Kossuth

121. THE LOST ONE'S LAMENT

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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